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ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund

Plan Regular
Option IDCW Growth

Direct–Growth is the plan and option we treat as this fund's main page, so search engines are pointed there. Everything below is this filing's own data.

This scheme has not published a NAV since 20 Aug 2015 — 11.0 years ago. It has most likely matured, merged or been wound up, so every figure below is a record of what it did up to that date, not a current price. Do not read it as a fund you can buy today.

Fund basics

Launched13 Sep 2010 16.0 years of history
CategoryBanking & PSUSEBI classification
Plan & optionRegular · code 113243
Benchmark no equity benchmark for this category
NAV as on20 Aug 2015source AMFI

Computed from 1,160 published NAVs between 13 Sep 2010 and 20 Aug 2015 — 4.9 years of history. Nothing here is an estimate; it is arithmetic on what the fund actually printed.

How it has moved

Return over time (%)

Fund name 1M3M6M1Y3Y5Y7Y10YSince launch
ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund Regular 0.12-0.080.11 0.111.02 0.65
Banking & PSU category median · 27 funds 5.086.865.91 6.88

Anything over a year is annualised (CAGR); shorter windows are absolute. The benchmark row is the index fund named below, priced daily by AMFI like every other scheme here. The category row is the median Regular plan in Banking & PSU — the middle fund, not a ranking, and a median rather than an average so that one mis-stated scheme cannot move it. As on 20 Aug 2015.

Risk measures

Fund name Volatility Sharpe Sortino Beta Alpha Max fall
ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund Regular 1.72 -3.19 -3.64 -2.86

Risk-free rate 6.5%. Beta and alpha need an index, so the benchmark's own row leaves them blank.

Risk

VolatilityDownside volatilitySharpeSortino
1.7%1.5%-3.19-3.64

Risk-free rate 6.5%, roughly the 10-year government bond.

The worst it has been

Deepest fallTime to recoverToday, from its peak
-2.9%8 monthsAt a high
0%-1%-2%-3%20122014
How far below its own record high the fund sat, on every single day it has existed. Flat along the top means it was making new highs; every dip is a stretch where somebody who bought at the wrong moment was down.

A drawdown is the fall from a previous high to the low that followed it. It is the number that decides whether somebody stays invested — a fund can have an excellent ten-year return and still have been unbearable to hold in year four.

Every one-year period it has lived through

Best yearMedian yearWorst yearLosing years
3.2%0.2%-0.6%22%
Worst-0.6%Median0.2%Best3.2%now
The full spread of one-year outcomes, with the fund's actual last twelve months marked. It answers the question a single number cannot: is right now an ordinary year for this fund, or an unusual one?

Rolling returns ask a fairer question than a single five-year figure: not "what did it do from this one start date", but "what happened across every start date". A fund whose worst year is −45% is a different proposition from one whose worst is −8%, even if the averages match.

Calendar years

-0.2%20110.1%20122.9%20130.1%20140.0%2015InvestVerdict
Each year on its own, January to December. Losing years hang below the line — averages hide them, and the years somebody actually had to sit through are the ones that decide whether they stayed.

What it actually holds

The real portfolio the AMC filed with AMFI. Nothing here is estimated — when a fund has no filing in our store the section simply does not appear. A fund is its holdings; the returns above are only what those holdings did.

Asset allocation

96.56%Debt
0.91%Cash & Equivalents
0.33%AIF Units

A fund's risk starts here — how much of it is even in the market — before any question of which stocks or which sectors. Cash is not idleness; it is the manager's choice not to be invested, and it shows up as a drag in a rising market and a cushion in a falling one.

Portfolio aggregates

AMFI has not classified this scheme's holdings into large, mid and small cap in the filing we hold, so there is no split to show. The section is left here rather than hidden so it is clear the data is missing, not that the fund holds nothing.

Concentration

Number of stocks114
Top 5 stocks17.21%
Top 10 stocks28.82%
Top 20 stocks44.19%
Largest single holding4.39%
Largest sectorCRISIL AAA · 48.44%
Number of sectors12
Effective stocks64.8
Cash & equivalents0.91%

Counting positions overstates diversification. The effective-stocks figure is the honest count: a portfolio can hold seventy names and still have most of its money in twenty.

Sector allocation

CRISIL AAA — 48.4%ICRA AAA — 17.7%SOV — 11.5%CRISIL A1+ — 8.3%CRISIL AAA(SO) — 4.4%Other — 7.4%CRISIL AAA48.4%ICRA AAA17.7%SOV11.5%CRISIL A1+8.3%CRISIL AAA(SO)4.4%Other7.4%
Where the equity money sits, by industry.

Largest holdings

Top 10 are 29.1% of the fund. A high number means a concentrated portfolio — fewer names doing more of the work, for better and for worse.

NABARD - 24-Mar-2028 4.39%
LIC Housing Finance Ltd. - 23-Mar-2035 3.56%
NABARD - 30-Sep-2027 3.30%
07.34% GOI 2064 - 22-Apr-2064 3.23%
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. - 26-Feb-2029 2.73%
Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd. - 30-Jun-2027 2.72%
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. - 07-Nov-2033 2.43%
Net Current Assets 2.39%
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. - 10-Sep-2027 2.20%
Siddhivinayak Securitisation Trust - 28-Sep-2030 2.16%
HDFC Bank Ltd.( Tier II Bond under Basel III ) - 02-Dec-2032 2.11%
Small Industries Development Bank Of India. - 09-Feb-2029 1.90%

Disclosed holdings from the AMC's AMFI filing, largest first. A portfolio is filed monthly and shifts between filings — this is the most recent one loaded, not a live book.

How it compares in its category

Against the Banking & PSU Regular schemes with the highest three-year return. Same category, same plan — the only comparison that means anything. The list re-sorts itself as returns move; it is an ordering by one number, not a view on which fund anyone should hold.

Return window
Scheme Return Alpha Beta Volatility Sharpe Max fall
ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund · this scheme 1.0% 1.7% -3.19 -2.9%
Franklin India Banking & PSU Debt Fund Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 7.2% 1.7% 0.41 -3.7%
UTI Banking & PSU Debt Fund UTI Mutual Fund 7.1% 3.0% 0.22 -6.7%
Kotak Banking and PSU Debt Fund Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 7.0% 1.7% 0.27 -2.9%
ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 7.0% 1.5% 0.32 -2.9%
Sundaram Banking and PSU Debt Fund (Formerly Known as Sundaram Banking and PSU Fund) Sundaram Mutual Fund 7.0% 1.0% 0.47 -1.8%
Invesco India Banking and PSU Debt Fund Invesco Mutual Fund 6.9% 2.1% 0.18 -4.9%
Bandhan Banking and PSU Debt Fund Bandhan Mutual Fund 6.9% 1.5% 0.25 -3.3%
LIC MF Banking & PSU Debt Fund LIC Mutual Fund 6.8% 2.2% 0.14 -5.8%

Alpha and beta are against the category index. Max fall is the deepest peak-to-trough drop in each fund's own history, so a longer-running fund has had more chances to record a bad one. Click a column to sort. This is a sort, not a ranking, and nothing here is a recommendation.

What a Banking & PSU scheme is

At least 80% in debt of banks, PSUs and public financial institutions.

Issuers with the strongest balance sheets in the country, many state-backed. One of the safest places in debt outside government securities.

Who it suits. Investors who want safety close to a gilt fund with a little more yield.

How long money should stay. 2 to 3 years.

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Questions people ask

What is the NAV of ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund — —?

₹10.3305 as on 20 Aug 2015, from AMFI's daily NAV file. NAV is declared once each business day after markets close, so the figure here is the most recent one published.

What is the difference between the Direct and Regular plan of ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund?

They hold the identical portfolio, run by the same manager. A Regular plan pays a distributor commission out of the fund, inside its expense ratio — commonly 0.5% to 1.2% a year more than Direct. That difference is charged on the whole balance, every year, so it compounds: on ₹1,00,000 held ten years a gap of 1.5 percentage points is roughly ₹1.4 lakh of ending value. Direct is the same fund without the commission.

What does the option mean?

An IDCW option pays part of the fund's gains out to you, and the NAV falls by exactly what it pays. It is not extra return — it is your own money returned, taxed at your slab rate. That also means a return computed from NAV alone understates an IDCW scheme, which is why no CAGR is shown here for it.

What kind of scheme is this?

At least 80% in debt of banks, PSUs and public financial institutions. Issuers with the strongest balance sheets in the country, many state-backed. One of the safest places in debt outside government securities.

How long should money stay in it?

Typically 2 to 3 years. Investors who want safety close to a gilt fund with a little more yield.